{"id":4354,"date":"2016-02-11T10:35:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T16:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4354"},"modified":"2016-02-11T10:35:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T16:35:04","slug":"was-there-paper-behind-that-us-military-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/11\/was-there-paper-behind-that-us-military-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Was There Paper Behind that US Military Stone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4355\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/riley_military.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4355\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4355\" class=\"wp-image-4355 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/riley_military-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"riley_military\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/riley_military-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/riley_military.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/riley_military-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riley Rampley military stone, Buckeye Cemetery, Walker Township ,Hancock County, Illinois. Photo taken by Michael John Neill, a Rampley descendant.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The United States government does not breathe without a piece of paper and the issuance of the tombstone for a veteran was no exception. If you&#8217;ve found a military stone for your ancestor, there may be a record of the issuance of that stone.<\/p>\n<p>There are two databases on\u00a0<em>FamilySearch<\/em> created from National Archives microfilm that may be helpful:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/familysearch.org\/search\/collection\/1913388?collectionNameFilter=false\">United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903<\/a>\u00a0(not just Civil War veterans as some claim)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/familysearch.org\/search\/collection\/1916249?collectionNameFilter=false\">United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The later set is more detailed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States government does not breathe without a piece of paper and the issuance of the tombstone for a veteran was no exception. If you&#8217;ve found a military stone for your ancestor, there may be a record of the issuance of that stone. There are two databases on\u00a0FamilySearch created from National Archives microfilm that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}